Food waste index report 2024
<p>The world wasted an estimated 19 per cent of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to this new report by the UNEP.</p>
Food Supply
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Why let foodgrain rot? Give it for free to hungry: SC
To Check Wastage, Suggests Increase In Storage Facilities & Hike In Allocation To BPL<br />TIMES NEWS NETWORK<br />
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Killed by the food bill?
The government is using the proposed National Food Security Act as an excuse not to distribute grain to the needy even as tonnes rot away in its warehouses<br />Nitin Sethi | TNN<br /><br />
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Distribute foodgrains at very low or no cost, Supreme Court tells Centre
J. Venkatesan<br /><br />New Delhi: To deal with the problem of foodgrains rotting in godowns, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to consider distributing them at
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SC asks Centre to ensure free foodgrain to poor
The Supreme Court today directed the central government to ensure free distribution of food grain to people below the poverty line (BPL) instead of allowing the surplus stock to rot in the godowns of Food Corporation of India (FCI).<br /><br />There are an estimated 65.2 million families covered by the BPL category and 24.3 million by the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY).<br />
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Oliver Twist seeks food security
P. Sainath<br /><br />The NREGS is restricted. The PDS is targeted. Only exploitation is universal.<br />
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Rotting foodgrain rattles govt aggressive measures will be taken To increase Storage Capacity In Next 2-3 Years: Govt In Parliament
<br /><p> ACKNOWLEDGING that the rotting foodgrain was
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Scheme that endangers food security of poor
<br /><p>BHUBANESWAR: The Rs 2-a-kg rice scheme was launched by the Orissa Government to ensure food security to the poor.</p>
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They trek miles for PDS quota
<br />BHUBANESWAR: For a BPL household in Orissa, collecting monthly PDS quota involves more walking comparable to its counterparts in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. This problem is more glaring in tribal hinterlands than in coastal areas.
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Behind the success story of universal PDS in Tamil Nadu
S. Vydhianathan and R.K. Radhakrishnan<br /><br />Technological interventions, innovative and fool-proof delivery mechanisms, constant reviews and fixing responsibility at each level ensure that an effective delivery system is in place.<br /><br />Rice at Re.1 a kg is an essential part of Tamil Nadu's Public Distribution System.<br />
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The right to food must be for all
The recommendation by the National Advisory Council for a revised Food Security Bill is, in essence, a proposal to enhance entitlements in some spheres while reducing them in others. The enhancement lies in the fact that the Bill will recognise, for the first time, a justiciable right to food for all persons in the yet-to-be-identified 150